A senior IAS officer, on the brink of retirement, has been suspended in Uttar Pradesh because he allegedly delayed sanctioning funds for an all-weather swimming pool in Sefai, the village of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.

The Supreme Court today said IAS officers will no more take oral instructions from their political bosses, and asked the Centre and states to set up a special panel to look into their transfers and promotions.

The Centre is set to change rules to insulate officers from arbitrary 'punishment' by state governments, a move that appears to be a consequence of the alleged victimization of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal by the Uttar Pradesh government.

The Uttar Pradesh government has revoked the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal. The 2009-batch officer, whose suspension on questionable grounds had triggered nationwide outrage, had met Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav along with her husban...

IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, whose suspension by the Uttar Pradesh government in July this year triggered nationwide outrage, met Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav along with her husband today. This was her first meeting with the chief minister since...

Sources say the Uttar Pradesh government has found discrepancies in Ms Nagpal's reply to its chargesheet accusing her of "poor administrative acumen and lack of foresight" by ordering a demolition that endangered communal harmony in the month of Ramz...

His battle against the mining mafia in the southern part of Tamil Nadu has led to death threats, says V Sundaram, a senior bureaucrat in Tamil Nadu. He alleges that repeated requests by him for security have been ignored by the state government.

For the first time since young civil servant Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh Government for allegedly taking on the sand mining mafia, three central services - the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Police Service ...

The Supreme Court will take up a plea seeking contempt action against Uttar Pradesh government and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for suspending IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal for implementing its order on removing unauthorised religious structures o...

Sources said the officer in her reply has claimed innocence after the Akhilesh Yadav government accused her of "poor administrative acumen and lack of foresight" for a decision that could cause communal tension during the month of Ramzan.

IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, who was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government last month for ordering the demolition of a mosque being built illegally on government land, has filed her reply to the charges by the state government.

A committee set up by the Environment Ministry has found evidence of illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, where IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was recently suspended for reportedly cracking down on sand mining mafia, s...

Azam Khan, one of the senior-most leaders of Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, has attacked the ruling Congress, calling its intervention on the Durga Shakti Nagpal suspension an "assault on the federal structure."

Durga Shakti Nagpal, the IAS officer who was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh last month, has now received support from Bihar. The Bihar IAS officers' association has passed a resolution, criticising how civil servants are treated by ministers.

Accusing the media of glorifying suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, senior Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan said her case was highlighted while other such suspensions went unnoticed.